Carwyn Jones (Carwyn Howell Jones) Quotes

We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've benefited from being members of the U.K.

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• I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Day
  • Media

• Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself
  • Enlightenment

• In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Situation

• I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'

  

  Banks
  • Know
  • Line
  • Rascals

• If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Formula
  • Torn
  • Hiroshima

• I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Live
  • Songwriter
  • Inward

• Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Morning

• Even the poor should give something to charity.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Charity

• Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Desire
  • Imagination

• Brian and I will vote for some kind of smoking ordinance while Jack is against it.

  

  Frank Rizzo
  • Vote
  • Smoking
  • Brian

• The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Children
  • Desires

• Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • History
  • Declaration of Independence

• I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Conscious
  • Affection
  • Convinced

• It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Policy
  • Nations
  • Israel

• According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918.

  

  Eustace Mullins
  • Revolution
  • Secret
  • Members

• We’re a rock band and we don’t claim to be anything else but we do like to try new things. Having electronics in the sound is more to do with texture and depth, were constantly doing harmony guitar and overdubs so we’d though we should try it to that with electronics and have a more distinct type of sound.

  

  Jerry Horton Papa Roach
  • Sound
  • Guitar
  • Rock Band

• We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've benefited from being members of the U.K.

  

  Carwyn Jones
  • Nations
  • Members
  • Wales